Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: C Joynes & Mike Gangloff’s “Tom Winter, Tom Spring”

Some combinations are so natural that, in retrospect, you have to ask, “What took them so long to get together?”

Aging punks, take note: Those veterans of post-hardcore reference point Bitch Magnet, guitarist Jon Fine and drummer Orestes Morfin, have

Some musicians need just the right instruments to create. Colin Andrew Sheffield is not picky that way. If you happen

Seeing, says a cliché from another century, is believing. If you saw Derek Monypeny and Kevin Corcoran perform, you’d know

Titles are often clues to an artist’s intentions, but Words Were Coming Out Our Ears may be more of a

Trust a man whose ideal compositional form is the palindrome to reckon with this axiom: Everything comes back to where

Matters of hierarchy often come to the fore when composers and classical ensembles represent themselves on an album cover. Who’s

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

Eli Winter is Chicagoan by choice, and you know what they say about the seriousness of converts. The guitarist moved